FF Names

The different GF/Summon/Eidolon/Aeons are taken from various stories/religions etc. How about posting the ones you know?

Yes, certainly.
Leviathan is an old time water god, originally from greek mythology, if i remember correctly.

There was also a film about a leviathan years ago, but it was completely wrong, it was some stupid underwater alien, so not the case.

Odin was as you probably know a god in the aesir mythology. Gilgamesh is the oldest written history on eart. It’s from the Mesopotamia.

Quick point of clarification, the Epic of Gilgamesh was myth, not history, there is a slight difference.

There’s too many to list, awhile ago someone posted a link that described where the names for just about everything in the FF games originated from, maybe someone else actually remembers the name of the site and can tell us.

The Phoenix was a bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.
It was also said that only one Phoenix ever existed at any one time

Quezacotl was the thunder god of the Aztecs. and Leviathan was not a greek god, Leviathan I think came from norse myths as the water god.

Shiva is from Hindu religion, though the shiva in hinduism is male, has 4 arms and is the god of destruction.

Leviathan

A sea serpent in Jewish mythology that originated from Mesopotamian myth.

�In the Old Testament, Leviathan appears in Psalms 74:14 as a multiheaded sea serpent that is killed by God and given as food to the Hebrews in the wilderness. In Isaiah 27:1, Leviathan is a serpent and a symbol of Israel’s enemies, who will be slain by God. In Job 41, it is a sea monster and a symbol of God’s power of creation.� [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Shiva

The third member of the Hindu trinity of gods, and the destroyer of evil. Commonly depicted with matted hair, a third eye and a crescent on his forehead. It is said that when the divine river Ganges, fell from heaven to earth to alleviate a long-lasting drought, it was Shiva who bore the impact of the river by controlling it in the matted locks of his head.

Taken from The Squaresoft Repository (http://mythology.terrapolis.org/)

Durendal could this have been the site you were talking about?

Siren must be from Homeros well-known ‘book’. And Hades comes from greek mythology…

That’s not the same site that was posted before, but it does have a lot of info in it, plus it looks better than the other one.

Good job to you MiseryEight

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The site Durendal was refering to may be FF Compendium at www.ffcompendium.com

Also, a few clarrifications over points already raised:

Gilgamesh was actually an historical figure and not entirelly myth, according to recent archeological excavations in what was once Mesopotamia. However, like the historical King Arthur having next to nothing to do with the Arthur myth, the mythological Gilgamesh became a much more ‘larger than life’ figure, and owed little to the actual person.

Also:

Ark, Garnet’s final Eidolon in FFIX, is actually based not on Noah’s Ark from the Bible as you might otherwise guess, but on a mech featured in an ancient Square PC game from the mid ’80s called SG Blassty which was only available in Japan. Yet another tip of the hat to Square’s roots in FFIX.

Carbuncle, while being the name of any number of reddish gems, is also the name of a legendary monster that was once believed to inhabit various regions of South America (the Spanish often tried searching unsuccessfully for it). If my memory serves me correctly, a carbuncle was supposed to be about the size of a small bear, coloured greenish blue, and had a large red gem centered in it’s forehead. Therefore the FF incarnation is an accurate depiction of this fabulous beast.

There are others, but I can’t remember them at the moment.

As a swede I know some about the vikings and their mythology, and I could tell you what they’re really called. Odin’s real name is Oden, and the Fenrir (eidolon in IX) is actually called Fenrisulven. And it’s called Ragnar�k…